🇰🇭 Cambodia · Traditional
Khmer Traditional Massageクメール伝統マッサージចាប់សរសៃ (Chab Sar Sai)
Cambodia's traditional bodywork, known as chab sar sai ('grasping the lines'): taking hold of lines in the body with pressure and combining it with stretching. It shares roots with Thai massage and is said to draw on the medical traditions of the Angkor era.
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Fact sheet
- Origin
- 🇰🇭 Cambodia
- Era
- Traditional
- Classification
- Traditional massage
- Techniques
- Pressure / Stretch
- Practitioner body parts
- Palm / Thumb
- Medium
- None
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Mat
- Also known as
- Chab Sar Sai · Jap Sosay · Cambodian massage
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